Eyeshield fitted with eyelashes or the like

ABSTRACT

D R A W I N G AN EYESHIELD HAVING A FRAME INCLUDING A PAIR OF BOWSHAPED MEMBERS WHICH ARE CONNECTED TO EACH OTHER AND PROVIDED WITH MEANS FOR HOLDING THE FRAME IN FRONT OF THE EYES OF THE USER AND IN WHICH ARTIFICIAL EYELASHES CONNECTED TO THE BOW-SHAPED MEMBERS OF THE FRAME PROJECTING FORWARDLY FROM THE LATTER.     D R A W I N G

Dec. 14, 1911 P. sAcco 3,626,514

EYESHIELD FITTED WITH EYELASHES OR THE LIKE Filed Sept. 25, 1969 FIG.?FI6.8, H69

United States Patent EYESHIELD FITTED WITH EYELASHES OR THE LIKE PierinoSacco, Michelangelo Bovi Corso Vittorio Emanuele 74, Turin, Italy FiledSept. 25, 1969, Ser. No. 861,075

Claims priority, application Italy, Oct. 3, 1968,

53,349/ 68 Int. Cl. A61f 9/00 U.S. Cl. 212 7 Claims ABSTRACT OF THEDISCLOSURE An eyeshield having a frame including a pair of bowshapedmembers which are connected to each other and provided with means forholding the frame in front of the eyes of the user and in whichartificial eyelashes connected to the bow-shaped members of the frameprojecting forwardly from the latter.

The object of the present invention is an eyeshield fitted witheyelashes or the like.

The eyeshield according to the invention consists of a mount, preferablyin a plastic material, to be fitted on the nose, as in the case ofspectacles, by means of a pince-nez clamp or a conventionalspectacle-frame, and the said eyeshield element being formed ofimitation eyelashes.

The present invention is also to be understood as including varioustypes of eyeshield, such as those in which the eyelashes areincorporated in the mount so as to form a single piece with the same, orthose where the eyelashes are attached to the mount either by means ofan adhesive substance or are first assembled on a support and theninserted, whether by means of an adhesive or by pegging, slotting orother means, in a seating prepared for the said support in the mount.

The eyelashes of the present invention may be attached to the frontface, the lower edge or the upper edge of the mount.

Other details and advantages of the present invention will be apparentfrom the following description and the accompanying drawings, the samebeing presented by way of example only and not as limitations of theambit of the invention.

Of the said drawings:

FIG. 1 shows a front perspective view of an eyeshield in which theeyelashes form a single piece with the mount, the said mount beingfitted to the nose by means of a pince-nez clamp;

FIG. 2 illustrates another type of eyeshield, in which the eyelashes areassembled on a support inserted in a frontally placed seating on themount, this last being of the spectacle-frame type;

FIG. 3 shows another type of eyeshield in which the eyelashes, assembledon a support, are attached to the mount by means of a crosspiece that iseither pegged or screwed to the said mount;

FIG. 3a shows a cross-section taken along the line 3a3a of FIG. 3; and

FIGS. 4-9 show, in section, various types of eyelashes and theirattachment to the mount.

Referring now to the drawing and first to FIG. 1 of the same, it will beseen that the eyeshield according to the present invention comprises aframe F consisting of a pair of bow-shaped members 1, 1 connected toeach other by a substantially U-shaped bridge member 1'. The bow-shapedmembers 1 project to opposite side of the bridge-shaped member 1' andartifical eyelashes 2 integrally formed with the bow-shaped members 1project forwardly therefrom.

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The frame F may be held on the nose of a user with pincenez clamps 3connected in any suitable manner well known in the art to the legs ofthe U-shaped bridge member 1'. FIG. 4 shows a cross-section through oneof the bowshaped members 1 and one of the eyelashes projecting therefromand this figure shows clearly that the bowshaped members and eyelashesare integrally connected to each other.

FIG. 2 illustrates a second embodiment of an eyeshield according to thepresent invention. The eyeshield shown in FIG. 2 differs from that shownin FIG. 1 in that the frame F is provided with earpieces 4 instead ofpincenez clamps for holding the frame in front of the eyes of the user.,The earpieces 4 are hingedly attached, as in common spectacle frames,to the outer ends of the bowshaped members 1a. The modification shown inFIG. 2 differs also from that in FIG. 1 in that the eyelashes 2a are notintegrally formed with the bow-shaped members 1a, but connected to anelongated member 5a from which the eyelashes 2a project forwardly in adirection trans verse to the elongated member. Furthermore, thebowshaped members 1a are formed respectively with elongated grooves 6rzof a cross-section as best shown in FIG. 5 in which the elongatedsupport members 5a are inserted and thus connected to the bow-shapedmembers 1a. The grooves 6a may be formed in the front faces of thebowshaped members 1a and be of a configuration as shown in FIG. 5 sothat the elongated support member 5a in the rear portions of theeyelashes 2a are encompassed by the groove. However, the grooves mayalso be formed in the bottom faces of bow-shaped members 1b and have asubstantially rectangular configuration as shown at 6b in FIG. 6 inwhich the elongated supporting members 5b and the eyelashes 2b connectedthereto will have a configuration as also shown in this figure. FIGS. 8and 9 show further slight modifications, and in the modification shownin FIG. 8 each of the bow-shaped members 1d is provided in the frontface thereof with a wide substant ally rectangular groove 6d in which acorrespondingly shaped connecting member 5d is inserted from which theeyelashes 2d project forwardly therefrom, whereas in FIG. 9 each of thebow-shaped members 1e is provided in the top face thereof with an opensubstantially rectangular configurated groove 62 in which acorrespondingly shaped supporting member Se is inserted from which theeyelashes 22 project laterally and forwardly as shown in FIG. 9.

In the modifications shown in FIGS. 6, 8 and 9 the elongated supportingmembers are preferably cemented in the respective grooves by anysuitable adhesive.

FIG. 7 shows a further modification in which the frame member 10 isprovided with a groove 6c forming a seating portion for the supportingmember 5c of substantially circular cross-section from which theeyelashes 20 project forwardly. The support member 5c is pressed againstthe seat portion of the groove by an elongated flexible member 7 whichin turn is fixed to the bow-shaped member. In this modification thesupporting members 50 with the eyelashes projecting therefrom aretherefore removably held in the bow-shaped members of the frame.

Finally, FIG. 3 shows a further modification in which the frame F" issubstantially of the same configuration as shown in FIG. 2 and has alsoearpieces hingedly attached thereto. In this case the eyelashes 2 arefixed to an elongated strip-shaped supporting member 5, and thesesupporting members are connected to the bow-shaped members of the frameF" by screws or picks.

It will, of course, be understood that various changes can be made inthe eyeshields as described above without thereby going outside theambit of the invention.

What I claim is:

1. An eyeshield comprising a frame consisting of a bride member and apair of bow-shaped members connected to and respectively projecting toopposite sides of said bridge-shaped member and having outer free ends;a pair of artifical eyelash units each including an elongated supportmember and a row of artifical eyelashes firmly secured to said elongatedsupport member along the length thereof and projecting forwardlytherefrom; attaching means attaching each of said eyelash units to thecorresponding bow-shaped member by fixedly securing said elongatedsupport members to said bow-shaped members extending in longitudinaldirection thereof; and means connected to said frame for holding thebow-shaped members with the artifical eyelash units attached theretoabove the eyes of a user so that said eyelashes will form a shield forthe eyes.

2. An eyeshield as defined in claim 1, wherein said holding meanscomprise clamping means attached to said bridge member.

3. An eyeshield as defined in claim 1, wherein said holding meanscomprise earpieces hingedly attached to said bow-shaped members at theends thereof distant from said bridge member.

4. An eyeshield as defined in claim 1, wherein said elongated supportmembers are fastened to front faces of said bow-shaped members.

5. An eyeshield as defined in claim 1, wherein said bow-shaped membersare formed with grooves into which said elongated support members areinserted.

6. An eyeshield as defined in claim 5 and including cementing means forfixing said elongated support members in said groove.

7. An eyeshield as defined in claim 1, wherein said bow-shaped membersare provided with seat portions and including flexible means connectedto said bow-shaped members and holding said elongated support membersagainst said seat portions.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS D. 149,007 3/1948 Lewis 351-51 XFOREIGN PATENTS 109,352 4/1928 Austria 2-13 937,210 3/1948 France 2-12254,490 7/1926 Great Britain 2-12 H. HAMPTON HUNTER, Primary ExaminerU.S. Cl. X.R.

